Designers: Get your name out!
Ok, now that you started designing, you want to take your creations (and yourselves) a level higher? No problem! Here are some tips to get yourself into the spotlight.
These days, the internet offers great opportunities to do self promotion. Set up a Facebook page for your projects and promote your designs through social media: Twitter and Facebook are perfect platforms to spread news about designing and connect with fellow designers. Or have you ever thought about an online portfolio? There are several portfolio communities to showcase your design. Try Behance , DeviantART, Coroflot or Computerlove. Get in touch with other artists and share knowledge or sell your designs.
VOTE
Promotional websites offer good opportunities to share all kinds of information. Think about Digg: you can submit stories and links and comment or vote on other links. If you have a lot of votes, you’ll get a nice position on the frontpage. Design Float and Design Bump are similar to Digg, but made for designers. StumbleUponis another nice example of a platform where people can give webpages more popularity by liking it.
SHOP
If you want to sell your designs on the internet, you can open a webshop by creating your own website or you can open a shop on Etsy. Etsy is an online marketplace, a designhub, a community which you can join: share ideas, write blogposts and follow (online) workshops.
But not only the internet is a place to connect with other people and gain more popularity. Go outside and discover designhubs or marketplaces for young designers. Visit design events to watch, learn and connect.
WHAT WE DO
We try do as much we can to get you out there. Ofcourse, as a 3D printing service we want the very best for our designers. It doesn’t stop after you printed your project: we want to help you to sell your items. How do we show your talent off? First of all we have our gallery. Every designer can showcase their 3D prints, printed at Materialise.
Then there is our blog. Every friday we show people your designs we discovered in Featured Friday. Regularly we interview designers, like you ofcourse, to show everyone your great work. Besides that we’re active on social media, we’ll tweet, pin every interesting project, put it on facebook or Flickr.
So, these were a few tricks to get your name out. There are so much more websites, but we tried to mention the ones that will pay off. We wish you the very best with your designs and branding path.
